About 30 students and four professors attended this trip (sponsored by Gangneung City's Tourism Department). I visited the Gulsan-sa Temple Site of 9th-Cen Zen-Master Beomil-guksa that morning. That afternoon i led them on an afternoon's tour of the San-shin and Guksa-Seonghwang Shrines 700-m up on the Daegwan-ryeong {Taegwallyeong} Pass (where it was totally socked-in with dense fog, making a mystical scene), then to the "Female Guksa-Seonghwang San-shin" Shrine tuckedin a downtown neighborhood.

That evening i gave a 2-hour Lecture putting it all together, about the complex San-shin traditions that are still the most important factors involved in the Gangneung Dano-je Festival, Korea's largest and most-successful such annual event.

And as a finale we toured Gangneung's most famous attraction Ojeuk-heon (Black Bamboo Mansion/Shrine, the birthplace of Neo-Confician philosopher Yulgok Yi I) -- that was all we had time for.